Net Resources

The following links are to net resources focused on reference information, collections, image compendia, specific architects, and texts.  You may forward suggestions and additions to info@sah.org.  Please note that many sites change URLs or are removed from the web on a daily basis, so the following information is subject to change.  For more general resources on subjects or places, see netresources2.

Image Resources:

• Cities/Buildings Archive - Meredith L. Clausen, U. Washington
• Architecture Images - University of British Columbia
• Art History Image Source - Margaret Ericson, Colby College
• Images of Medieval Art & Architecture - M. Alison Stones, U. Pittsburgh
• Art Images for College Teaching - Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
• Digital Archive of European Architecture - Jeffery Howe, Boston College
• Digital Imaging Project: Architecture and Sculpture - M. A. Sullivan, Bluffton College
• Landscape Architecture Image Resource (LAIR) - USDA + 6 U.S. universities
• 4000 Years of Architecture - THAIS, Milan
• Images of Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - C. W. Westfall, U. Virginia
• Deutschlands Architektur - Gary L. Catchen, Penn State U.
• American Memory Collections - Library of Congress, Washington
• Architecture Slide Library Online (SPIRO) - U. California, Berkeley
• ArchNet, digtial library on architecture of the Islamic world - Aga Khan Program, Harvard U. and M.I.T.
• Art & Architecture, mainly from the Mediterranean Basin - ArtServe, Australian National U.
• Asian Histoical Architecture - Tim Ciccone, Abe Ahn, and Robert D. Fiala.
• Great Buildings Collection Online - K. Matthews & Artifice, Inc.
• Images of England - English Heritage
• Maps of Paris, 1717-1887 - B. Bergdoll, Columbia U.
• Nolli's Map of Rome, 1748 - Earth Sciences & Map Library, U. California, Berkeley
• Avery Archtl. Library sampler - Aviador Coll., Digital Image Access Proj., Columbia U.
• Gothic & Renaissance Italian Arch. - J. Connors, Digtl. Img. Access Proj, Columbia U.
• Photographs of American Places, 1880-1920 - Library of Congress
• Photographs collected by Russell Sturgis (1836-1909) - Archives, Washington U., St. Louis
• The Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project - Duke. U.
• California Heritage Digital Images - Online Archive of California, California Digital Library
• Kidder Smith Images Project - Rotch Visual Collections, MIT
• Chicago Architecture Imagebase - Dept. of Art History, U. Illinois, Chicago
• Building Canada - John Bland Collection, McGill U.
• 20th-c. Australian Architecture (78 images) - DIVA, Monash U., Melbourne
• Copyright-free regional and city maps - Perry-Castaneda Coll., U. Texas, Austin
• SAH image exchange project

Net Link Compilations:

• Architecture: History - dmoz open directory project
• Architecure Links on the Web - RIBA Gateway to Internet Resources
• Net Resources: Architecture and Building - Jeanne M. Brown, U. Nevada, Las Vegas
• Planning and Architecture Resource Center - Cyburbia.org, SUNY, Buffalo
• Mother of all Art History Link Pages - Andrew Midkiff, U. Michigan
• Art History Resources on the Web - Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College
• Electronic Resources for Art Historians - Martin Raish, Binghamton U. Libraries
• Art on the Web - Jeffery Howe, Boston College  
• ArchNet: Virtual Library of Archaeology - Archaeological Research Institute, AZ State Univ.
• Historic Preservation Resources - Preserve/Net, Cornell U.

Collections:

• The Alvar Aalto Museum - Jyvaskyla, Finland
• Architectural Archives, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
• Drawing Collections, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library - Columbia U.
  • Greene & Greene Papers
• Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture - CCA, Montréal
• Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives - CMU, Pittsburgh
• Charles F. Murphy Architectural Study Center - Chicago Historical Society
• Special Collections, Graduate School of Design - Frances Loeb Library, Harvard U.
• International Archive of Women in Architecture - Virginia Tech.
• Julia Morgan Collection - California Polytechnic State Univ.
• Hist. Am. Bldg. Survey/Hist. Am. Engineering Record - Library of Congress
• Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections - Library of Congress
• Canadian Architecture Collection, Montreal - McGill U.
• Architecture Collection, Mass. Institute of Tech. - MIT
• Collections, National Building Museum - NBM. Washington, DC
• Dept. of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections - New-York Historical Society
• Architectural Archives at the N. Carolina State University - NCSU
• The Architectural and Building Records of North Carolina - NCSU
• Northwest Architectural Archives - U. Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Olmsted Archives - Natl. Park Service
• Southeastern Architectural Archive - Tulane U.
• Environmental Design Archive, College of Environmental Design - U. California, Berkeley
• Architectural Drawing Collection - U. California, Santa Barbara
• Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - U. Pennsylvania
• University of Texas Architectural Drawings Collection - U.Texas, Austin

Architectural Libraries

• Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library - Columbia U.
• U. Maryland Architecture Library - U. Maryland

Architects:

• Index of famous architects - Vitruvio.ch: Architecture on the Web
• Lewis Mumford: A Bibliography - E. S. Newman, R. Wojtowicz, comps., U. Pennsylvania
• Architecture: Famous Names - dmoz open directory project
• Palladio's Italian Villas - Carl I. Gable
• Palladio - Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc.
• The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson - R. G. Wilson, U. of Virginia
• Friends of Schinkel (Global Internet Society) - Susan M. Peik, U. Minnesota  
• Frederick Law Olmsted - Richard Leary, New Bedford, MA
• Photographs collected by Russell Sturgis (1836-1909) - Archives, Washington U., St. Louis
• Wright on the Web - J. H. Delmar
• AGRAM [db of seven 19th-20th C. architects] - R. Saariste, T. U. Delft
• Purcell & Elmslie, Architects - Mark Hammons
• Guide to the William G. Purcell Papers - Mark Hammons
• Willis Jefferson Polk - San Francisco Bay Area Arts & Crafts Movement
• Julia Morgan Collection - California Polytechnic State Univ.
• Index of Buildings by Julia Morgan - M. A. Sullivan, Bluffton College
• Greene & Greene Virtual Archives - USC, UC Berkeley, and Columbia U.
• Bernard Maybeck's Buildings, photos - Roy Flamm, California Heritage
• An Irving Gill Bibliography - Erik D. Hanson, Irving Gill Central
• Architects of Tulsa -Tulsa, Oklahoma Foundation for Architecture
• 20th-c. Australian Architects (24 images) - DIVA, Monash U., Melbourne
• Joze Plecnik, Architect (1872-1957) - M. Martinec, Ljubljana, Slovenia  
• Eileen Gray - Beth McLendon, Ethel Buisson
• 20th c. Chilean architects - Pontificia U. Católica de Chile
• Alvar Aalto - Alvar Aalto Foundation 
• Biographies of Women in Architecture - Virginia Tech.
• Chicago Architects Oral History Project - A. van Roessel, Art Inst. of Chicago
• Charles W. Moore, biography - Artifice, Inc.
• Paul Rudolph - Bruce Barnes, Claire T. Carney Library, UMass Dartmouth
• John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive - The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

Texts:

• Vitruvius: On Architecture (Latin, English, and French) - Bill Thayer, U. Chicago
• Vitruvius: On Architecture, plates from Como, 1521 ed. by Cesare Cesariano - ArtServe, Australian National U.
• Vitruvius: On Architecture (12 plates from an 18th-c. Venetian edittion) - P. A. George, U. Pennsylvania
• 671 Images from Serlio's Architettura (1537-51) - ArtServe, Australian National U.  
• Philibert de l'Orme: plates from Nouvelles Inventions ... (1561) and Architecture (1567) - ArtServe, Australian National U.
• Desgodetz, plates from Les edifices antiques de Rome (1682) - ArtServe, Australian National U.
• Vitruvius Americanus - Redwood Library, Newport, RI
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts - U. Wisconsin, Madison
  • Langley, Batty, The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs . . (London, 1756).
  • Halfpenny, William, Useful architecture (London, 1760).
  • Pain, William, Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant. (London, 1788)
  • Pain, William, The practical house carpenter, or, Youth's instructor . . . (London, 1792).
  • Wharton, Edith; Codman Jr., Ogden, The decoration of houses (London, 1898)
  • Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Homes (NY, 1909)
• 357 Images from Stuart & Revett's Antiquities of Athens - ArtServe, Australian National U
• Engravings of GB Piranesi, and other Plans of Rome - ArtServe, Australian National U.
• C. A. Busby, A Series Of Designs For Villas And Country Houses ... (London, 1808) - The Regency Town House, Brighton, England
• Plates from Schinkel - ArtServe, Australian National U.
• Wallis, Brighton As It Is, 1836, Exhibiting All The Latest Improvements... (Brighton, 1836) [in full] - The Regency Town House, Brighton, England
• Making of America, 19th c. books and journals on-line [U. Michigan] [Cornell U.]
  • Mariana G. van Rensselaer, "Recent Architecture in America" The Century, 9 articles, 1884-86 - Cornell U., MOA
    [Public Buildings I] [II. Public Buildings (continued)] [III. Commerical Buildings] [IV. Churches] [V. City Dwellings] [VI. City Dwellings II] [American Country Dwellings I] [American Country Dwellings II] [American Country Dwellings III]. 
• Marion Mahoney Griffin, The Magic of America - The Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute, Chicago

For resources more focused on subjects or places, see netresources2.